Data management system including user-independent generic database

Patent 5758333 Issued on May 26, 1998. Estimated Expiration Date:

November 12, 2016. Estimated Expiration Date is calculated based on simple USPTO term provisions. It does not account for terminal disclaimers, term adjustments, failure to pay maintenance fees, or other factors which might affect the term of a patent.

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Inventors

Assignee

Siemens Aktiengesellschaft

Application

No. 765964 filed on 11/12/1996

US Classes:

707/1, DATABASE OR FILE ACCESSING707/2, Access augmentation or optimizing707/102Generating database or data structure (e.g., via user interface)

Examiners

Primary: Kulik, Paul V.

Attorney, Agent or Firm

Hill & Simpson

Foreign Patent References

0 420 419 EP. 04/12/1991
0 425 222 EP. 05/12/1991
0 525 946 EP. 02/12/1993

International Class

G06F 017/30

Foreign Application Priority Data

1994-05-10 EP

Abstract

A data management system should relieve the user of data management tasks as much as possible and nevertheless be flexible with respect to user-individual forms of the user data.This aim is achieved according to the invention by a generic database (GDB) having a central control system (CU) and generic data modules (GM), the generic data modules already containing all the functionality to carry out access control and data maintenance in cooperation with the central control system, and the generic data modules nevertheless allowing a user-individual form of the user data.